Nut-lock



NrTED STATES JESSE EMANUEL PRICE,

PATENT OFFICE.

OF RUTH, MISSISSIPPI.

NUT-LOCK.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 625,122, dated May 16, 1899. Application filed August 16, 1898. Serial No. 683,722. (N model.)

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, J ESSE EMANUEL PRICE, a citizen of the United States,residin gat Ruth, in the county of Lincoln and State of Mississippi, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Nut-Locks and I do hereby declare the following tobe a full, clear, and exact description of the invention, such as will enable others skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same.

This invention relates to a useful and new improvement in nut-locks; and it consists in the invention hereinafter disclosed.

Referring to thedrawings, Figure 1 represents a perspective view of the device with the keeper closed. Fig. 2 represents a similar View with the keeper open. Fig. 3 represents a transverse section. I

In the drawings the letters A A represent the meeting ends of two railroad-rails provided with the fish-plates B B, through which and the rails pass the ordinary bolts 0, having the nuts 0. To one end of the fish-plate B is hinged one end of the keeper D, the latter having the angular opening or aperture d, corresponding in size and shape with the nuts 0. At its free end d the keeper D is made with an angular notch 01 and has below saidnotch the right-angular offset d and the stop 01 spaced apart from the offset d This stop d has the incline d on top and a perpendicular wall d toward the offset d Hinged to the place the keeper D is sprung against the fish-- plate B, the apertures (1 coming over the nuts 0, effectually preventing their accidental dislodgment. The latch E comes-into the notch 61 and is then turned around its pivot until it is pushed over the incline d and drops down between the oifset d and the stop 01 The offset (1 extends out from the face of the keeper D so far that the latch E cannot be turned past it; but said latch has to be turned around and over the stop d, and, coming up against the offset 01 cannot go any farther. This is due to the fact that such offset d is greater in length than the depthof the main portion of the latch E and so much greater that such latch cannot be passed over offset (1 While in this position any accidental loosening is effectually prevented, and the part c ofthe latch E lies against the base of the rail and is used as a handle when it is JESSE EMANUEL PRICE.

Witnesses:

' S. A. BRISTER,

W. S. PARSONS. 

